With a posse of Will Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Aziz Ansari and Chris Rock all gathered around in "Footnotes for 4:44" to discuss all their ups and downs with their romanticrelationships. Jay-Z claims that the strain between he and his father, who abandoned the family when Jay-Z was just 11.

It wasn't until he was 33-years-old, that Jay-Z met with his father and forgave him. His father died of liver failure shortly after.

“What I thought when I met my dad was, ‘Oh, I’m free to love now,’ ” he said in the video. “’But how are you gonna do it? You’ve never done this before. No one informed you how to do this. You don’t even have the tools to do it.’ That’s why I say [to Beyoncé in the song ‘4:44’, ‘You mature faster than me, I wasn’t ready.’ This is my real life.”

“I just ran into this place, and we built this big, beautiful mansion of a relationship that wasn’t totally built on 100 percent truth,” he said. “And then it started cracking, then things start happening that the public can see. Then, we had to go to a point and be like, ‘OK, tear this down, and let’s start from the beginning.’”